original title:
I siciliani
directed by:
cast:
Antonio Emanuele, Adriana Tuzzeo, Tony Sperandeo, Giulia Giuffrè, Filippo Glorioso, Peppino Ciccia, Sosicle Barone, Marilena Barca, Giovanni Torres La Torre, Nunzio Buttà, Santo Trovato, Salvatore Celano, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Leo Gullotta, Ninni Bruschetta, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco e il popolo siciliano
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
music:
Joe Castellano Blues Band, Rondò Siciliano, Gruppo Folk i Nebrodi, Davide Cuscunà, Antonio Smiriglia, Diego Spitalieri, Anna Bonomolo, Folkage Etno Band
production:
country:
Italy
year:
2016
film run:
120'
format:
colour
release date:
01/12/2016
festivals & awards:
In a little village in the centre of Sicily there is a boy, Ignazio Bonaventura (Antonio Emanuele)
living on occasional, of course illegal, works, registered as a perpetual unemployed. Tired of his
condition, he decides to write a book about Sicilians, thus setting out on a journey to interview
Sicilians and many popular people (such as Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Leo Gullotta, Tony
Sperandeo, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and Ninni Bruschetta). During his journey he meets several
people, like the “mafioso” (Tony Sperandeo), the Honorable (Filippo Glorioso) and others, each
of them somehow representing given aspects of Sicilians. Ignazio firmly believes he can find the
answers to the several mysteries shrouding the way of thinking of such a complicated people like
Sicilians to realize more about himself!
A long journey throughout Sicily, its several dialects and various landscapes, exactly there where,
through nature, the story becomes lively and Sicilians start to talk proudly as if the sun and sea
were their own property, inherited by some kind of ancestors. That’s the documentary film
involving everything and everyone, since it represents the Sicilian people and Sicily in an actual,
real, non-fiction way.